Crafts
Allotment themed embroidery
Inspired by the colourful vegetables we've been growing on our allotment, last year I made this embroidery hoop design featuring all my favourite allotment vegetables.
Crafternoon time - rediscovering a love for embroidery!
When I was applying for my degree course I couldn't decide what to apply for, I loved print and I loved embroidery so I applied for textile design courses and eventually ended up at Nottingham Trent, where I specialised in printed textiles. When I first started my business I was making little embroidered animal felt brooches, which I loved to make but they took me a long time. I gradually started doing much more illustration and that's the direction my work took. We've been holding lots of crafternoon meet ups in our little group of craft loving friends and I've...
Crafternooning
A couple of years back me and a few friends starting having a fairly regular meet ups to have some snacks, drinks and do some crafting. At crafternoon number one, I learned something about cross stitch... that you don't use all 6 strands of embroidery silk (who knew!!). I'd not done any cross stitch since I was little but I had taken one of my drawings and used an online tool to convert it to a cross stitch pattern.